GREAT DISCOVERIES; BARBARA GOLDSMITH

Obsessive Genius; The Inner World of Marie Currie

New York/London, Atlas & Company/W. W. Norton & Company. (ISBN: 0-393-05137-4). 2005. (hardcover) Near fine in fine dust jacket. 256pp. 8vo. Portrait of Marie Currie, her work and discoveries, and the immens price she paid for her renown. The jacket is fine. The last page, top corner shows two creases; else is fine, seemingly never read. Great Discoveries Series.

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Book number: 131324

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Science & Medicine, Education, Reference, Science and Medicine 0393051374

GREAT DISCOVERIES; GOLDSTEIN, REBECCA

The Incompleteness; The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel

New York London, Atlas Books / W. W. Norton & Company. (ISBN: 0-393-05169-2). 2005, 1st edition. (hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 296pp. 8 vo. First edition. Exploration of Gödel's remarkable theorem of incompleteness. Jacket shows faint wear at upper edge, otherwise fine, as is the book.

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Book number: 129448

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Science & Medicine, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics 0393051692

GOODRIDGE, RICHARD E.W. (SUPPOSED AUTHOR)

A Year in Manitoba; Being the Experience of a Retired Officer in Settling His Sons, with Illustrations, Observations on the Country, and Suggestions for Settlers Generally

London, W. and R. Chambers. 1882, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Near very good. 115pp. Folding map. Very fragile binding, with portions of spine lost. See Peel(3) 1006.

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Book number: 104909

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic - English

GOODWILL, JEAN (EDITOR)

Speaking Together: Canada's Native Women

Ottawa, Secretary of State. 1975. (Cloth) Near fine. unpaginated. Square 8vo, portraits. Largely women from western Canada, both Indian and Metis.

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Book number: 102480

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Metis, North American Indian, Women's Studies

GOULD, STEPHEN JAY

Wonderful Life; The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

New York London, W. W. Norton & Company 978-0-393-30700-9. (ISBN: 978-0-393-30700-9). 1989. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 347pp. 8vo. The Burgess Shale in British Columbia is estimated to be 530 million years old and is one of the earliest fossil beds that contains soft part imprints. Profusely illustrated. Cover shows light wear and some markings. Internally clean and bright.

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Book number: 130203

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Paleontology, Evolution, Fossils, Natural History 9780393307009

GRABURN, NELSON H.H.

Eskimos without Igloos, Social and Economic Development in Sugluk

Boston, Little Brown & Co.. 1969, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good. x, 244pp.

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Book number: 117909

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Anthropology, Arctic, Eskimo, Inuit, North

GRANGE, HERBERT

An English Farmer in Canada and a Visit to the States; Being Notes and Observations by a Practical Farmer and Commercial Man on Canada As a Field for British Capital and Labour

London, Blackie & Son. 1904. (Cloth) Very good. 150pp. Illus, near fine folding map at rear, quarter inch closed tear at the bottom of the attachment. Reinforced with tape at gutters. Belfast Library rebind with accompanying bookplate.Quarter leather with six raised bands to spine, hightlighting gilt lettering including D2999 to top compartment; assuming the library number. Solid copy. Remasrkably clear internally. Peel(3) 2767.

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Book number: 104947

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic - English

GRAY, JAMES H.

Boomtime; Peopling the Canadian Prairies

Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books. (ISBN: 0-88833-024-3). 1979. (Wrappers) Very good. 148pp. Illus. Glue is broken, as is the usual. Pages loose, but inscribed by Gray to title page!.

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Book number: 104972

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic, French, North American Indian, Politics-Economics, Transportation, Urban, Women's Studies 0888330243

GRAY, JAMES H.

Booze; the Impact of Whisky on the Prairie West

Toronto, Macmillan. 1972. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 243pp. Illus.

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Book number: 104969

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Urban

GRAY, JAMES H.

Booze; the Impact of Whisky on the Prairie West

Saskatoon, Fifth House. 1972. (Mass market paperback) As new. 243pp. Illus.

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Book number: 124126

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Urban

GRAY, JAMES H.

Men Against the Desert

Saskatoon, Fifth House Publishers. (ISBN: 1-895618-70-3). 1996, reprint. (Wrappers) Near fine. x, 263pp.

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Book number: 114736

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies 1895618703

GRAY, JAMES H.

Men Against the Desert

Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books. 1978. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 250pp. Illus. The "Dirty Thirties" on the prairies.

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Book number: 115468

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies

GRAY, JAMES H.

Men Against the Desert

Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books. 1967, 3rd printing. (Cloth) Fine in very good dust jacket. 250pp. Illus. Rear of jacket has met with some water. Does not carry through to the cloth. The "Dirty Thirties" on the prairies.

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Book number: 104966

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies

GRAY, JAMES H.

Men Against the Desert

Saskatoon, Western Producer Prairie Books. 1967, 1st printing. (Cloth) Very good in very good dust jacket. 250pp. Illus. Ex-lib with usual suspects and edgewear to jacket. The "Dirty Thirties" on the prairies.

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Book number: 129945

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies

GRAY, JAMES H.

The Roar of the Twenties

Toronto, Macmillan of Canada. 1975. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 358pp. Illus.

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Book number: 104970

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Urban